All of my creative business workshops have been discounted because I will be launching an all NEW DREAM BIG program in 2015. There are over 350 pages of content in the creaive business workbooks, creative business journal + planner pages, 112 creative business topics/discussions and 30+ HD videos and live stream Q & A replays in all of my business e-courses.

SAVE an additional 25%

on creative business and mixed media e-course bundles through Cyber Monday.

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if you purchase a creative business bundle you'll receive FREE access to

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>To take advantage of extra specials, head on over to my digital shoppe and place the e-courses in your cart. You will be prompted to checkout using your credit card or Paypal, enter your info {you won't be charged yet}, then you will be taken back to the shopping cart where you can enter the coupon code and then complete the checkout process. Discounts will be taken off entire order. This is on top of the already discounted BUNDLE prices too. only one coupon per order. $25 treiCdesigns gift cards will be sent electronically December 15, 2014. cyber monday discount codes expire December 1 at 11:59pm. Please allow 48 hours from next business day to receive the e-course classroom invite.

Today is Small Business Saturday! I encourage you to support local and small business enterprises during the holiday season! We make one-of-a-kind items and put our hearts and souls into create unique products. The holiday specials continue in my shoppe today...

If you've taken my online workshops, you are familiar with my digital art journaling workbooks. I've designed over a thousand colorful pages in digital workbooks for my e-courses. Also, I've created a limited edition collection of printable artist papers, collage sheets, art journaling cards and creative prompt jumpstarts that can be used to inspire your mixed media projects.

As you can see, there are so many creative possibilites! ps. make sure to download all the digital FREEBIES when you're in the shoppe.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>To take advantage of extra specials, head on over to my digital shoppe and place the e-courses in your cart. You will be prompted to checkout using your credit card or Paypal, enter your info {you won't be charged yet}, then you will be taken back to the shopping cart where you can enter the PRINTABLES30coupon code and then complete the checkout process. Discounts will be taken off PRINTABLES products only.

SPECIAL COUPON CODES for the first 25 customers during BLACK FRIDAY weekend.GRATITUDE50- use this code to SAVE $50 if you spend equal or over $150 {only50 available}GRATITUDE40 - use this code to SAVE $40 if you spend equal or over $100 {only 100 available}GRATITUDE25 - use this code to SAVE 25% on orders equal or over $75 {only 100 available} THESE are additional savings on your total order.NOTE: once the codes are all used up, they expire and won't be available...so shop early, they're going fast!! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>To take advantage of extra specials, head on over to my digital shoppe and place the e-courses in your cart. You will be prompted to checkout using your credit card or Paypal, enter your info {you won't be charged yet}, then you will be taken back to the shopping cart where you can enter the coupon code and then complete the checkout process. Discounts will be taken off entire order. This is on top of the already discounted BUNDLE prices too. Please allow 48 hours from next business day to receive the e-course classroom invite.

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This special sale only happens once a year!! LIMITED TIME special!

For this bundle, you can choose from three from the following e-courses...

Here's a peek inside Inscribed: art journaling e-course. In this video I share how I doodle and paint my signature girlie glam...{if you are reading this via RSS feed, you will have to visit my blog to watch the video} enjoy the inspiration!

hello creative friends! It's getting cooler here in the bay area and ground is covered with beautiful shades of autumn. On my daily walks I snap photos of the gorgeous, colorful inspiration.

art journal prompt: take a photo of leaves and use the photo for color palette inspiration or doodles leaf shapes in your journal. write about the chill autumn day.

PRINTMAKING UNLEASHED + my StencilGirl stencils GIVEAWAY----> my book tour continues...check out the colorful artwork above that was created by my good friend MaryBeth Shaw inspired by my new book!! Head on over to her blog to see all the gorgeousness and for a chance to win a copy of my book and a few of my Traci Bautista for StencilGirl collection.

There is a lot happening in the studio over the next few weeks and I want to give you a heads up. I'll be having my annual BLACK Friday + cyber MONDAY shoppe sale starting at 12:00am on Friday, November 28. There will be daily specials that I will announce on my blog each morning through Monday, December 1 at 11:59pm. Make sure to come back each day to find out the special...this is my biggest sale during the year...you don't want to miss it!!

I wanted to do something special this year to celebrate my creative business and thank YOU for being part of my creative journey. I officially {according to my LLC papers} started my business in 2002, twelve years ago. I actually started planning and brainstorming years before I launched and really started working on it in late 2001...but offically treiC designs celebrates it's 12th birthday this year!

I am so grateful to be doing what I love, building a business based on my passions and sharing my creativity with you. During the twelve days, each day I will be giving away a variety of my favorite mixed media + art journaling supplies, digital products, and other goodies. I have a lot of fun, inspriation and freebies in store for you :)

Follow along on my blog and Instagram @treicdesigns for all the details.

I'll be teaching an artisan workshop Printmaking Unleashed. You won't want to miss this..the workshop kit is full of mixed media supplies from my generous sponsors. PLUS all registered students will receive a copy of Printmaking Unleashed and one of my limited edition StencilGirl stencils designed just for this workshop. you can find CHA workshop details + register here.

she was the most kindhearted and giving person..always there to listen.

Lisa Engelbrecht touched the lives of many people with her heart of gold and her beautiful artwork. She was a renegade. She was an activist. She was a loving mom. She was a passionate teacher and loved to share her gift of creativity with the world. Her smile was infectious and her gentle but fierce, vibrant spirit lit up a room.{photo above: lisa playing in my class at Int'l Quilt Festival}

Watching Lisa paint was magical, the pens and brushes danced across the page so gracefully.

I have so many fond memories of our late-night conversations, teaching trips, dinners and creative adventures.

{photo above: vinage shopping with Lis in Long Beach}

I met Lisa about 10 years ago when I took a calligraphy mixed media workshop she taught in San Francisco. I remember the calligraphers in the workshop were creating these beautiful pieces then throwing them away because they weren’t perfect. So I went around and collected everyone’s discarded colorful papers and paper towels to use as collage pieces. Lisa laughed and loved that I was encouraging others to use their “leftovers” and that was the beginning of our wonderful friendship.

Over the years, I was fortunate to spend a lot of time with Lis {not a typo, that's what I called her :)} while we taught at various events like Artfest, International Quilt Festival, Art Unraveled and Art and Soul.

After I moved from my house in Venice, CA, I traveled for six months and Lisa let me leave my car and art supplies at her house while I was on the road. In between my teaching trips, she opened her home to me and invited me to stay as long as I needed. There were numerous times, I prepped and packed workshop supply kits on her kitchen table. My luggage, boxes and art supplies covered her living room floor and she didn’t mind.

She was such a great host, every time I came to visit, she put together a little guest kit with soaps, goodies and towels. She always made me feel right at home.

We had many yummy dinners always seeking out Thai , Mexican or some other exotic food. We would talk about life, art and creative business. I’d tell her about my love life and we would have a lot of good laughs.

Once I moved back to the Bay Area, when I visited LA, she always had an open door. If I needed anything she would be there unselfishly willing to help out. She was an wonderful friend and confidante.

The world was a better place with her in it.

{above photo..the Long Beach/ LA sunset from outside Lisa's house}

Lis..thank you for everything...I am blessed to have known you and have a wonderful friend like you in my life. Thank you for your love, support, encouragement and most of all your warm and welcoming smile and hugs.

The celebration for my latest book Printmaking Unleashed continues today with a colorful guest post from Wendy Brightbill. I discovered Wendy's beautiful work from a Facebook post and wrote her to ask her to be part of my book launch. I'm so excited to introduce her to you and share her lovely patterns and color palettes!

I am so honored to participate in Traci Bautista’s book launch of Printmaking Unleashed. What I love about Traci and this book is her use of everyday items in printmaking techniques. I love that she teaches you how to look around your house for items that make beautiful art prints. Traci truly makes print making accessible to everyone!

This book is packed full of inspiration for printmaking techniques. I could barely flip through the book without wanting to go play and explore with materials I hadn’t thought of using before. I made my own stamps with foam, stencils with hot glue, masks with paper… but my favorite was the mono prints on plexiglas with stencils and masks (pages 78-81).

I approached my art for this project a little bit differently in that I knew that I wanted to use the elements from my printmaking for digital patterns. I absolutely loved the messy beautiful prints that I got using Traci’s techniques. So every print that I created, I scanned into my computer so I could play with them in Photoshop. This enabled me to really play with the same elements in different ways and create multiple pieces with the same print. The possibilities are absolutely endless!!!

I think that this book really lends itself to creating surface pattern designs. I love the way that her techniques translate to beautiful icons that can be repeated in a pattern. I feel like I barely scratched the surface of this book. I can’t wait to try more of the techniques in this book. I am actually really excited about creating some fun textures with the techniques in this book for me to use in some of my digital art.

Buy a Traci Bautista Printmaking Unleashed Ultimate Kit collection, which includes a signed copy of my NEW book, a few of my favorite products used in the book PLUS digital copies of my two previous books Doodles Unleashed and Collage Unleashed. It also includes a limited edition StencilGirl stencil that I designed, which is only available with the purchase of this kit.

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